Yitzhak Rabin 1922 - Israeli politician
- 1692 - In Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Salem witch trials began. Four women were the first to be charged.
- 1781 - In America, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
- 1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY, began the manufacturing the first practical typewriter.
- 1941 - FM Radio began in Nashville, TN, when station W47NV began operations.
- 1954 - The United States announced that it had conducted a hydrogen bomb test on the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. It was the first U.S. test of a dry fuel hydrogen bomb under Operation Castle.
- 1954 - Five U.S. congressmen were wounded when four Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- 1989 - In Washington, DC, Mayor Barry and the City council imposed a curfew on minors.
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